In Toronto, Ontario, in
March 1979 David Irving (left) visited by
appointment Sandor (Alexander) Kopacsi, who
had been police chief in Budapest at the time of
the anti-Communist uprising of 1956. Kopacsi wrote
a famous book giving his inside storyof the event,
chillingly titled In the name of the People.
The interview was for Mr Irving's account of the
revolution, Uprising,
published in 1981 by Hodder &
Stoughton.